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“Chief executive officers from nine large American companies, healthcare and otherwise, released a 130-page report detailing a number of ways the private sector can help reduce the country’s rising healthcare costs, including explaining a lot of the work their own companies are already doing,” Mobi Health News reports.

“The report outlines three major areas where large employers can improve healthcare: they can focus on improving the health and wellness of individuals through their own employee wellness programs, they can improve the health of communities by working with local organizations, and they can improve the healthcare system by pushing their employees into provider organizations that offer value-based care, and supporting new care delivery technologies like telemedicine and mobile medication adherence tools.”

“In the employee wellness sector, companies talked about both technology-driven and non-tech-driven strategies… The key takeaway for individual health identified by the panel was the need for employers to talk to one another about what works, rather than considering employee wellness to be an area of competition. In the short term, that can take the form of groups like the CEO Council and reports like this one, but in the long term, the companies wrote in the report, it means contributing hard evidence and efficacy data on these programs to the future.”